Sentences with phrase «by brain disease»

But the researchers saw changes in an area typically hit hard in later life by the brain disease.

The study findings seem to throw light on a long - puzzling question about how getting older can impact the memory of even those not affected by a brain disease or mental condition like Alzheimer's.

However, the picture that emerges from studies in patients affected by brain disease and neurological conditions is more complex.

Dementia Definition: A chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and «impaired reasoning».

Not exact matches

According to a longitudinal study, those with a brain unaffected by Alzheimer's spend more time looking at pictures they haven't seen before whereas all of those who spent an equal amount of time looking at both images developed the disease.

As the Alzheimer's Association notes, until recently, «clinical trials were conducted where up to 30 % of participants did not have the Alzheimer's disease - related brain change targeted by the experimental drug.»

This disease occurs when blood flow to a region of the brain is interrupted by either a clot or bleeding, depriving the body of oxygen and nutrients.

The collaboration, facilitated by Johnson & Johnson Innovation, will explore the potential for online psychometric tests, such as the Cogniciti brain health test, to help identify adults at risk of developing dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.

The symptoms are caused by different diseases, which affect the brain, such as Alzheimer's.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

My husband died by suicide and I'm appalled at the number of ignorant people in the world and in the church who believe «you just have to change your thinking» to overcome depression, anxiety or other brain related diseases, and even take to blaming the family for the problem.

To him, the link between football and CTE is clear: «CTE is a progressive, degenerative brain disease, that all evidence points to, is caused by trauma — and usually repetitive brain trauma — that appears to be acquired while you are an athlete, and then slowly rots your brain the rest of your life.»

These published studies showed that crude kuzu root preparations or their extracted flavonoids, given as injections or taken orally, Researchers also report that flavonoids lower cholesterol levels, reduce the risk of forming blood clots, protect the heart against cardiovascular disease, and protect the brain by dilating cerebral microvessels to increase blood flow.

Also has an autoimmune disease that affects his brain and was triggered by these illnesses.

Sources tell Press Association Sport that a major study into whether footballers are at greater risk of degenerative brain disease is set for launch in the next few weeks with the appointment of a research group to undertake the most comprehensive study of its kind, jointly commissioned by the Football Association and Professional Footballers» Association.

I worry that lost amidst the hoopla about the new CTE study is the fact that not every football player whose brain was donated to the CTE Center for pathological scrutiny was found to have the disease, and, that it was not detected in either the brains donated by the families of football players who died before they got to high school, and in only three of fourteen of high school players (and, in those, the disease had not progressed beyond the «mild» stage).

Research suggests that about a third of kids are lucky enough to escape trauma, but about a quarter suffer such high doses that it affects brain development, immune and endocrine functioning, and can create mental and physical disease systems that reduce the lifespan by an average of 20 years.

«My life has been impacted by traumatic brain injury and brain disease, and I appreciate MomsTEAM and Brooke's longtime commitment to making contact and collision sports safer.

There is the ever - growing list of retired football and hockey players who have been diagnosed post-mortem — often post-suicide — with the degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), allegedly brought on by repetitive head trauma.

«a disease process in the brain, involving the cortical neurones, brought about by an autointoxication... as a result of a disorder of metabolism.»

Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's are caused by the poor formation of those proteins in the brain.

Nowinski, who suffered multiple concussions on the football field and in the wrestling ring, now dedicates his work to concussion research and education, both at the Sports Legacy Institute, where he is president, and at Boston University, where he is co-director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease brought on by repeated trauma.

Mad cow is the common name for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), a fatal disease caused by abnormal proteins (prions) in the brain and nervous system.

Although the prevailing idea has been that the devastating disease, which strikes some 1 percent of U.S. adults, is primarily caused by something going wrong with neurons, the scientists suspected the brain's support cells, called glia.

Speakers at this event addressed the development of the adolescent brain, the diseases and learning difficulties that seem to correlate with adolescence, and the policy initiatives undertaken by the federal government in response.

Most recently, he noted, researchers reported in Science that sleep functions as a kind of «sewer system» for the brain, at least in mice, by flushing beta - amyloid, which is known to accumulate in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Three recent papers authored by Dr. Peter Nelson and others at the University of Kentucky Sanders - Brown Center on Aging, explore the neuropathology behind a little - understood brain disease, hippocampal sclerosis (known to scientists and clinicians as HS - AGING).

HARD KNOCKS By studying the brains of former football players, researchers are finding clues about how a neurodegenerative disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, progresses, with the hopes of one day preventing it.

Flaherty was featured in a recent article in The New York Times and in a documentary film on depression among medical professionals produced by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), and she openly discussed a major depressive episode that eventually hospitalized her in her 2004 best - selling book, The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain.

By subdividing the brain more strategically, the map can help pinpoint particular sections» functions and help determine how different cortical regions contribute to development, aging and disease.

I'm critical of the standard view promoted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse that addiction is a brain disease.

«Nana technology» could compensate for failing memories among people with Alzheimer's disease, amnesia and other difficulties by taking over some of the brain work

Naturally, every behavior is mediated by the brain, but the language «brain disease» carries the connotation that the afflicted person is helpless before his own brain chemistry.

Degenerative brain diseases like mad cow disease (officially known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), scrapie in sheep, and vCJD in humans are thought to be caused by prions, misfolded versions of a normal cellular protein called PrPC.

Devastating brain disease caused by human cannibalism promoted protective gene mutation to emerge just 200 years ago

Then, Feng recognized a novel opportunity to directly measure whether tDCS generates EFs in deep brain areas among patients with movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, who are often treated by implanting DBS electrodes.

LACK of sleep could accelerate the onset of Alzheimer's disease by encouraging toxic plaques to develop in the brain.

«We came up with interesting hypotheses, and possibly insights, into risk factors for brain disease by studying aging intestines,» he says.

A genetic mutation protecting against kuru — a brain disease passed on by eating human brains — only emerged and spread in the past 200 years.

Beyond PSP, other brain diseases are also marked by abnormal tau clumps — among them a rare movement disorder called corticobasal degeneration, an inherited form of frontotemporal dementia with Parkinson's - like features, and Alzheimer's disease.

In humans, Huntington's is an inherited disease caused by a gene encoding a toxic protein, called mutant huntingtin, which causes brain cells to die.

Still, researchers are intrigued by the possibility that cells may use these clearance mechanisms to propagate misfolded proteins throughout the brain — in which case targeting the mechanisms could conceivably slow disease progression.

In the most famous example of cannibalism - related disease transmission, the Fore people of New Guinea were nearly driven to extinction as a result of their ritualized consumption of brains and other tissues cut from the bodies of their deceased kin — kin who had been infected by kuru, an incurable and highly transmissible neurological disease.

To answer these questions, a team of MUSC investigators led by stroke neurologist and physician - scientist Wayne Feng, M.D., MS, attempted something that has never before been tried — they directly measured tDCS - generated EFs in vivo using deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrodes that were already implanted in patients with Parkinson's disease.

Huntington's disease is caused by a gene encoding a toxic protein (mutant huntingtin) that causes brain cells to die.

Yang said the study not only indicated which genes are affected by traumatic brain injury and linked to serious disease, but also might point to the genes that govern metabolism, cell communication and inflammation — which might make them the best targets for new treatments for brain disorders.

Saxena's findings are corroborated by a recent study from the University of Iowa, involving a group of people who had suffered lesions in various parts of their brains as a result of strokes or other neurological diseases.

Huntington's disease is a brain disorder characterized by the emergence of decreased motor, cognitive, and psychiatric abilities, most commonly appearing in the mid-30s and 40s.

Characterized by tremors, rigidity, difficulty walking and other symptoms, Parkinson disease is caused by the destruction of brain cells that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine.

To look for the vessels, Dr. Reich's team used MRI to scan the brains of five healthy volunteers who had been injected with gadobutrol, a magnetic dye typically used to visualize brain blood vessels damaged by diseases, such as multiple sclerosis or cancer.